Drury Lane Books is hosting yet another incredibly talented writer in its Writer’s Salon series—Lorna Landvik.
Lorna Landvik, best-selling author of many novels including Patty Jane’s House of Curl, Angry Housewives Eating Bon- Bons, Oh My Stars, and Mayor of the Universe, will visit Drury Lane Books in Grand Marais for a book-signing from 2 to 4 p.m. Sept. 17.
Landvik has performed stand-up and improvisational comedy around the country and is also a public speaker, playwright, and actor, most recently seen in an all-improvised, onewoman show Party in the Rec Room. Landvik will also be in Duluth the following dayfora6p.m.book signing and 7 p.m. reading at the bookstore at Fitger’s (600 E. Superior St.).
Landvik’s new novel is Best to Laugh and features Candy Pekkala, her latest irrepressible character on the world stage—or at least onto the dimly lit small stage where stand-up comedy gets its start.
A comic performer herself, Landvik taps her own adventurous past and Minnesota roots to conjure Candy’s life in this strange new Technicolor home. Her fellow tenants at Peyton Hall include a female bodybuilder, a ruined nightclub impresario, and a well-connected Romanian fortune-teller. There are game show appearances and temp jobs at a record company and an establishment suspiciously like the Playboy Mansion, and of course the alluring but not always welcoming stage of stand-up comedy. As she hones her act, Candy is tested by humiliation, hecklers, and the inherent sexism that insists “chicks aren’t funny.”
Written with the light touch and quiet wisdom that have made her works so popular, this is classic Lorna Landvik—sometimes so funny, you’ll cry; sometimes so sad, you might as well laugh; and always impossible to put down.
For more information about Landvik’s books or the book signing, contact Drury Lane Books at (218) 387-3370.
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